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((H-1B represents taking from the employee class and giving to the
employer class, since H-1Bs are a net liability because they don't pay
taxes or pay much less, and employers can use them to get rich the
time-tested way-commonize costs and privatize profits. Bret.))




A Colorado Reader Says High Taxes On Corporations Using H-1B Visa
Employees Would Give American Workers A Chance

From: Morgana (e-mail her)

" Today’s Letter: An Illinois Engineer Says Immigration Lawyers Always See Green No Matter How Much Economic Red Ink Surrounds Them

I read letter writer Bob Johnson’s letter about the glut of H-1B visa
holders in the US even in these dire economic times.

In Colorado, out here on the Front Range, there are now hundreds and
hundreds of programmers out of work. Looking at the classifieds, there
aren't enough jobs advertised to allow a jobless worker to meet the
minimum requirement of three applications per week that would qualify
him for unemployment benefits.

Nevertheless, we're importing tens of thousands of H-1B visa holders
to compete with Americans for the few jobs that remain. And it is not
just programmers but also teachers, paralegals, nurses, doctors and
sundry other occupations that Americans are fully qualified to
perform.

Even if you assume that some number of H-1B workers might be necessary
to remain competitive, this would only be at the level of senior
scientists and professors but not at the Bachelor/ Master’s Degree
line worker level - which is what is now being filled with the H-1Bs.

The solution is to allow unlimited H-1B workers, but to impose a tax
equal to the salary of that worker for the privilege of using a non-
American worker. If there were a true need for this worker, and if
said worker filled a special requirement that could not be met by
Americans, the double salary (the worker’s compensation plus the tax
equal to his wages) would be cheap for the company.

But if the company is just trying to save a buck or exploit foreign-
born workers, going with an American at half the cost would more
beneficial.

The current system is broken and unworkable. Right now, with the
difficulty the H-1B has in changing jobs, and the lower salary, the
system favors the foreign worker over the American worker.

Bob Johnson replies: For at least four years and probably longer, I
have been giving an H-1B report to various American engineering
associations detailing how these non-immigrant visas have devastated
American workers. The associations continue to ignore me.

And it is just not American engineers who feel the pain. Even the H-1B
visa recipients are crying “foul.”

Here’s a report I forwarded to the engineers association from Indian
journalist Harish Baliga who claims that the biggest slave trading and
labor law abuse is found at American universities. The author cites
aliens working at major universities who a “…Chinese, Indian, and
East European faces, some struggling with their English but all
working twenty hours a day with little pay.”
Baliga’s conclusion: “Government in United States does little to stop
this abuse.” (Read Baliga’s entire report here.)"

http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_010309.htm#b2